兴起于20世纪70年代的美国社区学院，为美国社会需求的职业技术领域培养了大量的专业技术人才，受到了全美社会的欢迎。社区学院已成为和传统大学相平行的又一条高等教育渠道。从某种意义上看，美国社区学院相当于我国专科层次的高等职业技术学院。社区学院之所以能取得长足的 The American Community College, which rose in the 1970s, trained a large number of professional and technical personnel in the field of vocational and technical needs of American society and was welcomed by the entire nation. Community colleges have become yet another channel of higher education parallel to traditional universities. In a sense, the American Community College is equivalent to the higher vocational and technical college in our country. Community colleges have been able to make great strides